(25.3.2018) Open cooperation between Israel, the Saudis and other Gulf states, at the expense of the Palestinians, has so quickly become the norm that we’ve barely noticed the transformation. Only last year there were attempts to keep under wraps the fact that both the Israel Defense Forces’ chief of staff, Gadi Eisenkot, and his Saudi counterpart Abdul Rahman bin Saleh al-Bunyan had met at a conference in the United States for commanders of U.S.-allied armies. Today this would seem unremarkable.